Evaluating the Consistency of Some Popular Innovation Models with Social Justice

Disregarding the social and environmental issues in popular innovation models, in addition to more concerns to social justice, justifies the necessity of evaluating the consistency of these models with social justice. Using thematic analysis, this paper, proposes a framework for the evaluation; and assess the compatibility of the linear model of innovation and the broad approach to national innovation system to the social justice goals. The findings show that although none of the models are completely consistent to justice, each is congruent with some of the proposed criteria. That is while the broad innovation system has the capacity to include social justice concerns in its analysis.